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We're currently using Apollo message broker 1.6 on Linux and one thing we noticed is that if for any reason the broker service doesn't shutdown properly (machine crash, daemon killed, etc) there's a ...

I downloaded a huge amount of files, but discovered the use of md5 and sha as integrity checkers quite recently. From then I always prefer to check it for big downloaded files, even if I never found ...

I have a very unstable connection and it cut off multiple times while downloading Windows 8.1 using Microsoft's SDM, so I'm kind of concerned to how I can check to see if the file is still intact once ...

I am using rdiff for my differential backup. Recently an issue happened where all versions of my backup failed to patch correctly and rdiff returning an error 106 which after investigation is a code ...

I'd like to compare folders on two different computers.
I'm using BitTorrent Sync to synchronize currently 260 GBs of data between two computers: a Windows 7 desktop PC and a Windows 8.1 laptop. All ...

I understand that PXE is implemented by using TFTP over UDP - neither one of those protocols verifies integrity, which would seem important for something like the operating system - is there some sort ...

When having a system (hardware), that has no protection against sudden power loss (zero power at all), what is the best way to keep the damage that may occur to a running GNU/Linux as low as possible?
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My question is, how can I detect silent data corruption at my home PC (Windows + Linux).
I do rsync like automatic backups (with version history). But how do I know in a few months/years that a long ...

I'm looking for a way to transfer a file using only a pen and paper.
This is somewhat similar to paperbak, except the density I'm looking for is much, much lower, and I don't want to use a printer or ...

I am moving data from an almost dead HDD to an external USB drive using linux , because for some reason Windows cannot see the data.
I want to copy a large amount of data over from the HDD to the USB ...

I'm copying a lot of data between two hard drives. The first one (the source) was getting a lot of repetitive Finder Error -36 codes. Scanning the Console this is linked to an I/O Error coming from ...

Assuming I'm on an NTFS partition, is it just as safe to edit files during defragmentation as when not? Is there any added risk, even if very small? If not, how does the operating system ensure the ...

I've got a bunch of compact flash cards that I've used heavily in a professional photo and video capacity.
I'm concerned that one of them is going bad, since I am seeing files (most often video, but ...

Back in Windows 95 OSR2 (I believe), there was a conversion tool that would take your extant FAT16 partition and change it to FAT32 non-destructively (most of the time).
Are there any tools like that ...